The Pathology Laboratory, INC.

The Pathology Laboratory, INC. was paid $13.72M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 165 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 25% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE PATHOLOGY LABORATORY, INC.
LAKE CHARLES, LA 70601

33aNPI1215917588assigned 01/20/2006

33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician

28Total paid$13.72M

24GClaims748,479

24DCodes billed165

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#2 of 18

Median peer was paid$21K

This provider vs. median667×

Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.

Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider

By year, as a table

Year	Claims	Paid
2018	57,587	$1.05M
2019	84,051	$1.60M
2020	78,834	$1.62M
2021	146,294	$2.28M
2022	138,142	$2.48M
2023	136,442	$2.43M
2024incomplete	107,129	$2.26M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
88305	Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination	25%	59,893	45,426	$3.49M
88175	Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal, any reporting system; collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer	6.8%	65,904	50,132	$927K
87491	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe	6.6%	38,761	27,231	$899K
87591	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe	6.3%	37,048	26,098	$868K
88307		5.0%	8,002	6,035	$686K
87661	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe	4.1%	31,614	18,990	$564K
80050	General health panel	3.2%	21,697	14,157	$432K
87801	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; amplified probe, multiple organisms	3.0%	9,304	6,138	$410K
87624	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types	3.0%	15,777	12,515	$408K
U0004	2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r	3.0%	5,901	5,175	$408K
88304		2.7%	12,615	10,417	$374K
88342		2.7%	11,005	8,295	$366K

153 more codes

88141		2.5%	22,787	$339K
80307	Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay	1.9%	6,205	$263K
82306	Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed	1.8%	13,352	$243K
80061	Lipid panel	1.5%	24,113	$200K
87150		1.3%	7,278	$173K
87389	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies	1.2%	10,212	$168K
84443	Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)	1.2%	15,570	$168K
80053	Comprehensive metabolic panel	1.2%	21,538	$159K
85025	Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count	1.0%	26,358	$139K
83036	Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C)	<1%	17,133	$109K
U0005	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2	<1%	5,899	$96K
84439		<1%	15,504	$95K
87086	Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine	<1%	18,006	$94K
87506		<1%	488	$90K
87088		<1%	16,654	$87K
86780		<1%	9,315	$86K
86003		<1%	4,292	$70K
86803		<1%	6,405	$69K
87481		<1%	9,461	$55K
82607		<1%	5,022	$50K
81513		<1%	1,322	$48K
86762		<1%	4,617	$47K
88341		<1%	1,258	$46K
84403		<1%	2,583	$44K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	<1%	1,237	$42K
87340		<1%	5,531	$41K
87077		<1%	6,001	$40K
82746		<1%	3,854	$38K
84146		<1%	2,432	$35K
80074		<1%	1,219	$34K
87186		<1%	5,126	$32K
81001		<1%	16,700	$31K
84702		<1%	3,235	$30K
87015		<1%	5,743	$28K
83525		<1%	3,173	$26K
80048	Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized)	<1%	3,596	$23K
86850		<1%	5,513	$20K
82784		<1%	1,776	$18K
82728		<1%	1,939	$17K
87070		<1%	2,631	$17K
84153		<1%	1,361	$16K
84481		<1%	2,321	$16K
86140		<1%	4,696	$16K
86696		<1%	1,420	$16K
84144		<1%	1,175	$15K
88112		<1%	819	$15K
83001		<1%	1,079	$14K
82670		<1%	764	$14K
86038		<1%	1,733	$14K
88300		<1%	884	$13K
84436		<1%	4,166	$13K
83550		<1%	2,254	$13K
82947		<1%	4,443	$12K
86235		<1%	4,451	$12K
85660		<1%	2,625	$11K
88142		<1%	905	$11K
87511		<1%	788	$11K
86695		<1%	1,435	$10K
83540		<1%	3,056	$10K
86900		<1%	4,787	$10K
88143		<1%	1,005	$10K
86901		<1%	4,570	$10K
82570		<1%	5,221	$10K
84402		<1%	537	$9K
80076		<1%	1,505	$8K
82248		<1%	2,749	$8K
83735		<1%	1,722	$7K
83002		<1%	556	$7K
84479		<1%	2,404	$7K
87563		<1%	513	$7K
86703		<1%	825	$7K
88302		<1%	241	$7K
85652		<1%	3,457	$6K
86376		<1%	675	$6K
87081		<1%	1,430	$5K
86225		<1%	713	$5K
80055		<1%	478	$5K
82951		<1%	383	$4K
84550		<1%	1,238	$4K
83690		<1%	721	$4K
80164		<1%	406	$4K
87529		<1%	165	$4K
80069		<1%	508	$3K
82247		<1%	1,085	$3K
82550		<1%	660	$3K
84156		<1%	1,161	$3K
82043		<1%	699	$3K
36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	<1%	2,599	$3K
82465		<1%	857	$2K
86769		<1%	69	$2K
86430		<1%	708	$2K
88312		<1%	102	$2K
83970		<1%	80	$2K
86706		<1%	309	$2K
0753T		<1%	637	$2K
U0002	2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc	<1%	58	$2K
82785		<1%	192	$2K
82540		<1%	534	$2K
86334		<1%	243	$2K
87505		<1%	45	$2K
86592		<1%	476	$2K
84165		<1%	368	$2K
83020		<1%	92	$2K
81514		<1%	26	$1K
83615		<1%	339	$1K
85027		<1%	309	$1K
82150		<1%	284	$1K
84270		<1%	92	$1K
85060		<1%	853	$1K
86008		<1%	158	$1K
82952		<1%	330	$1K
85018		<1%	490	$983.98
87046		<1%	52	$900.48
85610		<1%	356	$877.77
88311		<1%	435	$852.08
85014		<1%	406	$819.02
88189		<1%	23	$786.87
84480		<1%	211	$785.98
81025		<1%	177	$733.50
87899		<1%	53	$709.02
84100		<1%	233	$635.28
88173		<1%	24	$529.91
87493		<1%	82	$519.23
0760T		<1%	128	$475.00
87045		<1%	51	$459.62
82274		<1%	28	$421.92
86705		<1%	46	$417.59
83880		<1%	12	$412.83
85730		<1%	107	$332.02
83630		<1%	15	$254.72
86317		<1%	16	$237.68
86885		<1%	41	$210.53
87660		<1%	15	$201.48
87480		<1%	15	$199.23
87510		<1%	15	$199.23
85007		<1%	113	$183.87
86704		<1%	13	$169.35
84155		<1%	275	$164.48
86200		<1%	16	$144.03
82565		<1%	122	$87.39
84520		<1%	115	$51.82
84460		<1%	105	$45.13
84450		<1%	105	$43.83
81003		<1%	49	$42.56
82310		<1%	99	$26.42
85008		<1%	714	$22.24
84132		<1%	88	$19.05
84075		<1%	96	$16.13
82040		<1%	83	$10.56
82374		<1%	84	$5.80
84295		<1%	84	$5.44
82435		<1%	84	$5.25
81015		0%	55	$0.00

Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialDARBY, JOSHUA (DIRECTOR OF SUPPORT SERVICES)